After days of tributes to the late Maggie Daley by people who knew and admired her, Mayor Rahm Emanuel is talking with the Daley family to try to figure out the best way to permanently acknowledge what she meant to Chicago.

The city should not be dictating charities to recipients of city subsidies, Mayor Rahm Emanuel said Wednesday, attempting to walk a political tightrope on allegations of favoritism against an after-school charity run by former First Lady Maggie Daley.